The most important outcome of the results of the recent parliamentary elections in India is that the nightmare for Indian Muslims is over. Muslims in India are about 200 million i.e. about 15% of India’s total population of about 1400 million ( of which about 80% are Hindus ). Even before the right wing Hindu party, the BJP, came to […]

India has intensified with China “a silent war” focussed on challenging China’s renaming of places in India’s Arunachal Pradesh state to strengthen its territorial claim on it. The Indian Army’s information warfare division, backed by celebrated research institutes like the British-era Asiatic Society based in Kolkata, have swung into action to counter the Chinese nomenclature offensive. Already tweets by the […]

Modi’s Tough Stance Could Invite—Not Deter—Chinese Aggression High up in the mostly uninhabitable stretches of the Himalaya Mountains, the world’s two largest armies are facing off. The tensions at the disputed Chinese-Indian border, where around 100,000 troops are garrisoned at remote outposts, rarely makes international headlines. But it is one of the world’s most dangerous flash points. In 2020, clashes […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance was winning a majority of seats in early vote counting trends in the general election on Tuesday, but well short of the landslide predicted in exit polls, TV channels showed. The trends spooked financial markets which had expected a hefty win for Modi, with stocks falling steeply. The rupee also fell sharply against the […]

A total of 57 seats across 8 states polled on June 1 in the last and final phase of the ongoing general elections in India. The announcement of results is scheduled for June 4, 2024. Voting for all seats in the northern border state of Punjab will take place in this last and final phase, 13 constituencies being Gurudaspur, Amritsar, […]

J&K: Opportunity at Hand On May 18, 2024, a former Sarpanch (head of panchayat, village level self-government institution) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, Ajaz Ahmad Sheikh, was shot dead by terrorists at Herpora village in the Shopian District of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). On the same day, a tourist couple, identified as Farah Khan and Tabrez Khan of Jaipur, […]

India’s nuclear test of 1974, codenamed “Smiling Buddha,” signalled a critical shift from peaceful nuclear technology to military applications in the history of South Asia. This alleged Peaceful Nuclear Explosion (PNE) was the first case of horizontal nuclear proliferation since the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) was formally adopted in 1967. The test, conducted at the Pokhran-1 site, used plutonium that […]

The fear of US sanctions has failed to deter India from signing a 10-year contract with Iran to develop and operate the Iranian port of Chabahar. The deal is expected to enhance regional connectivity and facilitate trade involving India, Iran, Afghanistan, and other nations. India’s Shipping Minister Sonowal had called the agreement a “Historic moment in India-Iran ties” while Jaishankar […]

On May 8, 2024, a ‘deputy commander’ of The Resistance Front (TRF), Momin Mir, was killed by Security Forces (SFs) in the Kulgam District of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). On May 7, 2024, SFs killed two terrorists in an encounter, including a top ‘commander’ of TRF, Basit Dar, and his associate Faheem Ahmed Baba, who was an over ground worker […]

Release of statistics on population change is an indication Vicious anti-Muslim rhetoric is likely to be the main plank of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the last four phases of the elections to the Lower House of the Indian parliament (Lok Sabha). Voting ends on June 1 and the results will be announced on June 4. Faced with […]